Do You Find Fishkeeping A Nightmare Or Pleasurable.

[WILDER]

A pleasure when things are running smoothly.
Only had one disaster touch wood, Ntd.

 

[Behemoth]

yeah when everything is running great it's very relaxing and enjoyable, but when you face a problem it's a disaster and it stresses me out for a bit.

 

[Torrean]

depends on what the problem is and if I can fix it. I don't enjoy when a fish gets sick but if it's a problem I know I can deal with I get pleasure from dealing with it. If something horrible happens like I drop the PH test kit bottle in the tank then it's a nightmare.

 

[Qays]

I once dropped all of my fish food in the tank... never try balancing the fish food on the corner of the tank

 

[karen84]

Pleasurable no disasters yet thank god

 

[iain.betson]

a pleasurable nightmare can cause sooo much stress but also, so much enjoyment.
No matter how how bad it gets I always want more fish and more tanks

 

[RandomWiktor]

A little bit of both. On one hand, I find it very troubling when I am not sucessful with fish. I haven't really had any husbandry related deaths so far, but I've had a couple of close calls. It is definately a major learning experience, but one that can be something of a pain in the arse. Oh, that, and it is really bloody expensive! I can't believe how much properly caring for fish costs! I think I'll stick to rodents in the future

That said, however, I am absolutely in love with fish. I find thier behavior captivating, find them soothing to watch, and love waking up to a bunch of hungry little fishies waiting to be fed and pampered.

 

[kanzaris]

No matter what fish keeping is one of the best things. Just stressfull when you go on holiday .

Sabby

 

[helsekia]

I think its a pleasurable stress!

I love my fish talk to them all the time and wouldnt be without them but they are a stress when anythings wrong.They are such a source of pleasure,fantastic

 

[ramaseseniblikxviii]

definatly the pleasure/pain thing with keeping fish.
My home tank is great but I look after a tank in a local school and once they called me down there because some kids had poured fountain pen ink in the tank......little b@£%$@ds.
But there is nothing like relaxing in front of your tank when you get home (after a long day scalping children)
and any effort you put in will be repaid tenfold.

 

[richard_mincher]

i know what you mean, when i first started out, i was nervous about everyting... water temp; whether the thermometer was lying to me, acidity, everthing. Then i relaxed a bit, bought a decorative tree log for the tank, unfortunately the peace was the dreaded 'quiet before the storm'... as i awoke one morning to find my 7inch common plec stuck in the log, now i'll admit i was the first to laugh at this, for some reason it hadn't dawned on me what was really going on, i thought he was just staying in there for fun and when i put my hand in to chase him away, he wouldn't move, i became panicky and lifted the log a bit, almost trying to shake him free... soon my mum came in and saw the site, she didn;t find it funny as she immediately twiged what may happen, we tried everything, we even tried pulling the fish a bit, but this was stressing him out far too much so i stopped this from continuing... horribly i had to leave for school, i didn't want to but my mum assured me she would take care of it... i found out later that she had phoned up our local vet and asked for help, the receptionist began to laugh and got her head fair bitten off by my mum, lol. she then said their was very little they could do... By this time, my mum says, the fish was begining to take serious gulps, obviously finding it hard to breath, so she realized the fish was going to die anyway so she might as well have a go a trying to cut the log off. unfortunately the log was made of resin? which was pretty difficult... my mum got our cleaner to hold it whil she took a pair of the garden secatours to it... this may seem mad, causing serious stress to the fish, but please remember that it was going to die anyway, so it was worth a try...
Success!!! Sh got the log cut and got the pleco, now named 'Lucky,' back home into the tank, at which point he shot off and attatched himself to the filter, refusing to move for days, it's been about 8 months since then and he is now 8inches and living happily, though he is very suspicious of people, understandably, lol.

 

[Qays]

Fish are better than having kids , everyone agree?

 

[postingalwaysposting]

nightmare at the momment but when all is going great its a real pleasure and i love it

 

[kanzaris]

Hi Richard

The same thing happened to me just two weeks ago. One of my small plecos got stuck in a barnacle it was getting so stressed. In the end I had to get the pliers lift the barnacle out of the water and make it bigger.
After I had to laugh about it but at the time I was panicking.

Sabby

 

[Dwarfs]

I think fish keeping is more like a huge challenge, with little quizzes and tests (equipment failure, fish fighting, illness) thrown in at random. It's like a puzzle sometimes, trying to find out which fish can go together, which can't and where they all go when you have it figured out. I deal with that quite a lot